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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
Lost In the Fog.

San amusing incident" writes a cor
respondent OF the Pail Ma Bu9get,
Occurred during the fog which envel-
oped certain parts of the metropolis on
Tuesday afternoon. Attracted by the
firing of the salute in honor of Princess
Beatrice's accOuchement, | entered st.
James's Park from the Duke of York's
steps. Immediately inside the park the
fog was so dense that it was hardly pos
sible to distinguish a light ten yards
distant went on. however, and in a
very few minutes found myself in the
center of a small knot of lOlterers. The
firing had ceased, but I could hear the
rumble of the wheels of the gun-car-
riages, and every now and then a snort
from a startled horse. Cries of where
are you2' and :" here are you, gunnerP
were repeated all around. Then l re
allied what was happening. A squad
of Life Guards was getting into more or
less hopeless confusion. | could just
distinguish the helmets of a dozen of
them standing in Ii e, and here and
there lantern was darting about among
those who would have taken the lead
in the march home To move the guns,
was, however, impossible, for a few
PAGES brought them in contact with
some obstacle. Everything was then at
a standstill, save an officer or two.
y hese wanted to know the way to
Whitehall One informant insisted that
Whitehall was to the left; another was
positive it wa to the right. In the end
the officers adopted the latter advice,
and rode into the railings."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
Thrift and Earnings.

Farmers are thrifty class and man
age in good and bad season to live COM
f0rtably. They do not waste their sub
stance in dissipation, and therefore they
always have something to fall back upon.
They own their own houses, generally
free from debt, rear families, and leave
something at death. How is il with the
average well paid artisan in the city ?
His yearly wage is equal to the net in
come of a good farm, his necessities are
no greater than those of the farmer,
but his condition is not comparable to
that of the latter. 1t can be said with
entire truth that if the farmer lived as
recklessiy as the ordinary artisan in the
CITY does, he would become bankrupt in
short order. Now, suppose the artisan
of the city should adopt the temperate
and thrifts habits of the farmer, how
long would it be before building associ-
atious would multiply and the Ii me-
steads of the artisans spring up by the
hundreds ? The prosperity of worker
is not so much in the making of money
as in the saving of it. With most wage
earners an increase of income is followed
by a corresp ponding increase of eXpendi-
ture, so no permanent benefit Is derived
from it. All the efforts of labor unions
have been directed to the end of increas
ing the wage of the workman without
any thought of saving or economizing
it. This is the~grs@4. defect of labor or
ganization, which heither teaches thrift
nor provides cooperative methods of
cheap purchasing. Dissipation which
wastes the substance and wrecks the
health of the worker, meets with no
condemnation. AS l. ng as thrift and
economy do not rule the life OF the aver
age workingman in the cities, SO long
will the workingman be the under dog
in the struggle of life. Every dollar
earned and wasted by workingmen con.
tributes to make laboi's fight weaker,
and every dollar saved and turned to
good account makes labor's cause
stronger. And these dollars, saved or
wasted, affect for good or bad, the wei
fare of the community as well as that of
the individual.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
Why He Prefers Mules.

The Allentown PENN Register tells
this story A well. known manufacturer
of this city-it isn't necessary to give his
name finds it necessary to employ a
double team to do his hauling. For
several years he kept two horses, and
while they did their work we'll he sud
denly concluded to dispose of them and
buy a pair of mules instead He says
that after the horses had done their
days or weeks work he was continually
annoyed by some of his friends or en-
ployeGs asking for the use of the horses
to take pleasure drives. Not caring to
offend them he frequently acceeded to
their requests, while all the time his better
Judgment told him that it was rough on
the horses, which by their honest work
were entitled to their just rest. This
thing went on for awhile and our friend
was pondering by day and by night how
he could bring about a Phange. 1t oc-
CURED to him one day that mules were
not very popular for pleasure driving
purposes, but that they answered every
other purpose of horses--in fact were in
several respects preferable for his own
use. SO he concluded to sell his horses
and get mule team. His plan worked
admirably, and the other day he informed
us that since he got the mules he hasn't
been asked once for their use by his
friends or employees.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
EquaIIzing Home Work.

81 have about come to the conclu-
sion that no man is good enough for
even passably good woman" said the
proprietor of the Coon range all sorts
store, as he glanced at lank fellow
who had just made disastrous raid on
box of matches; every man has an
easier time than his wife"
'Tve thought of that a thousand
times" replied old man Gatewood,
known through the neighborhood as
Lazy Sam. Il know that have an
easier time than my wife, but I'm
bringing the thing down mighty nigh
equal now. don't believe in allowing
a woman to mighty nigh kill herself at
work, let me tell you and for some time
l have been shaping my points, SO that
she won't have such a hard time"
Equalizing it, eh2"
"That's exactly what I'm doin', gen
tlemen. Last year my po' wife had to
chop all the wood aud fetch all the
water"
"And you have relieved her of that,
eh?'
Well, partly; she has only to chop
the wood now. My boy has got to be
big enough to tote the water, l tell
you what's fact, man ought to think
of these things, gs,"-Arkanso'5 If'agsier
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
A Practical joke on a CJnjurer.

A popular performer, whose name
with out OF consider atioif for his
feelings, was once made the victim of a
practical joke which is too good to be
lost He was exhibiting the trick in
which a borrowed hat is torn to pieces,
placed IN a mortar and fired at the gal
lery. The moment the report is heard,
the hat is seen suspended from the pro-
scenium arch, and not until commanded
by the performer does it fall, and is
caught by him. OF course the borrowed
hat is exchanged for one belonging to
the performer, and while this is being
torn uD, the original is hastily attached
to a string leading from the upper pro-
scenium box, or from the top round of a
high ladder standing inside the wings,
thence, through a hole in the proscenium
arch, to an assistant who is stationed
there. At the proper moment the hat
is thrown from the box or the ladder
top, and rapidly hauled to its place, af
ter which all that remains to be done is
to cut the string and let it drop On
the occasion referred to, the performer
having had some words with his as
sistant, that gentlemen determined to
''get even That night at the close of
the trick, when the professor triumph
antly pointed his finger above and was
about to remark, as was his nightly Gus,
tom, owe saw the fragments of the hat
wrapped up and placed in the mortar
hehold now the TapparitiOn of the hat,
his eye caught sight of a distressed look
ing white hat dangling in the place of
the gorgeous borrowed black one, his
wretched joke froze on his lips, and he
beat an ignominious retreat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
GIRLS THAT WORE THE BLUE.
Some Instances of Women Going TO tho
WRr-A Meeting Afterward.
CFrom the Chicago Leader J

NEFOn InS CulcdSO L6aueE.)
knew girl who at the beginning of
the war was so filled with patriotism,
and so weighted down by a sense of
duty, so carried away by an adventurous
impulse that she followed the squad of
boys who had enlisted her neighbor-
hood, and, dressing +, a boy, enlisted
In the company that was forming in the
country town. Her friends discovering
the long hair she had cut from her head
and the clothing she had thrown off in
her fathers barn, gave immediate puT-
suit. As they were driving into the
city they saw walking alongside the side
walk smoking a cigar a young fellow
who had the same sort of face as the
girl they were in pursuit of. They
stopped and accosted the yquag fellow,
and were treated to such shower of
epithets and such a exhibition of
sbravado that they admitted their mis-
take and apologized for it. An hour
later one of the party found the same
young fellow deathly sick from smoking
the cigar. He called him by the girls
name, and found that after all the
young fellow who had done such hard
swearing was the girl they were looking
for. She was taken home, and after
ward entered the service as hospital
nurse. In the last year of the war l
found her again in mems clothiny, cry
ing as only a broken-heart d woman
can cry, over a light haired man, shot
dead in the charge at Resaca. She
cared nothing then for exposure, and
went home in a widows dress.
Another girl, | remember, had
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amining surgeon at one of the recruiting
camps early in the war, and on one oc
casion, as | passed down the line of a
company formed in open order for mus
ter and inspection, | noticed, as the
hands were held out, one set that, to
my practiced eye, belonged to woman.
| said nothing at the time but after
consulting with the Colonel, had the re-
cruit with the feminine hands brought
to headquarters. The bright-looking
soldier admitted in two minutes that
she was women, and in two days she
was at home A year after that l
was at q ball il Washington. As | stood
little aside from the main party, wish
ing that | was in front with the army, a
young lady came toward me, bowed
with exaggerated stiffness, and, as she
Strengthened up, went through the mo-
tons of obeying the order: eyes
right" She offered ME her hand and
thanked me for some hing that she sup
posed that l had done, and wal ed
away. She was pretty enough to be the
belle of the occasion, and l saw that she
took considerable delight in my confu-
sion of mind, all of which l understood
later whe | learned that she was my re-
cruit with the ladylike hands. She
afterward told me that she owed me
debt of gratitude for stepping in at the
right time to break doWI her romantic
notions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
ShOeless Confederate Soldiers,
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.

From the Atlanta (Ga.) constitutional
'lf you had been around just after
the rOut at Nashville" said an old sol
dier, ''you would have thought there
were 10, 900 elephants loose in the coun-
try. The ground was covered with
snow, and, as you may imagine, the air
was eager and nipping. The routed
Confederates put out down the snow
covered pixies, making for Corinth, and
thence to Mobile, 240 miles distant.
We were clothed with nothing but
shirts and breeches. comparatively few
owning old hats, and only here and
there fortunate man with a pair of
shoes. The half f-starved and half-fr
men wrapped their feet in old sacks and
any sort of rags they could get until
the tracks they made were great round
holes in the snow like the tracks of ele-
plants. Gen. Lowery-Ged bless his
soul-tried to do something for US. He
had some shoemakers, and at night
would make the soldiers report at his
headquarters, where the shoeshop would
be located. Green hides-not an hour
off the cows backs-were used for shoe
making. A soldier would plant his
foot on the hairy side of the hide and
the shoemaker would cut out a round
piece of skin, sliS it in various directions,
and with a coarse twine gather up the
ends and literally sew the foot up in the
raw hide with the skin side inward.
The shoes we're good for about "A hours
use and then they would draw our feet
and we would have to cast them aside
aud go back to the bagging, When
got to Mobile with lot of the fellows
we took quarters in a warehouse The
odore Hamilton was playing "The Wife"
at the Mobile Theatre, and | scuffied
around and got ticket | went to the
theatre bareheaded and barefooted and
in my shirt sleeves. l thought it was
the best show | ever saw. After the
performance an old man carried me
home with him and gave me a long
tailed coat, a hat, and a pair of shoes.
" hen | got back to the warehouse the
boys tore the tails off the coat, but she
was a double breasted fellow and
stuck to her. I looked like jaybird
with his tail pulled out"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
At MIDNIGHT.
BIZ LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToN.

The room is cold and dark tonight
The fire is low;
Why come you, you who love the light,
To mock me so?
pray you leave me now alone;
You worked your Will,
And turned my heart 10 frozen stone;
Why haunt me still?
got me TO this empty place;
l shut the door;
Yet through the dark I see your face
just as Of yore.
The old smile curves your lips tonight,
Your deep eyes glow
With that old CLEAN that made them brigl
So long ago.
listen; do hear your tone
The silence thrill?
Why come yous 1 would be alone,
Why vex me still?
What! Would you that we re-embrace-
We two'once more?
Are these your tears that wet my face
just as before?
You left to seek some new delight,
Yet your tears flow;
What sorrow brings you back tonight?
Shall not know?
l viii not let You grieve alone
The night is chill
Though love is dead and hope has flown,
Pity lives still.
How silent is the empty space!
Dreamed once more?
Henceforth against your haunting face
! bar the door
Hdrpe1''s Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
Wonderful Richard Donovan.
THE ASTONISHING THINGS THAT HE DID
AFTER LOSING BOTH ARMS AT THE
SHOULDER.

There recently died at Potsdam, st.
Lawrence county, Richard Donovan,
who was in some respect one of the
most remarkable men In northern New
York. Twenty years ago, when a boy,
Donovan lived in Watertown and worked
in flour mill. One day he was caught
in belt and received injuries that ne
cessitated taking off both arms at the
shoulders.
This great misfortune did not dis
courage him, and after recovering his
health he set about earning his liveli-
hood as best he could without the use
of hands or arms. Part of the time he
had lived alone, and from the necessity
of helping himself he became wonder.
fully adept IN performing all kinds of
work, using his feet and mouth princi-
pally. He owned q horse, of which he
took the entire care, harnessed it. fast
tened and unfastened the buckles with
his teeth, and drove with the reins tied
around his shoulders Being in need of
a wagon, he bought wheels and axles,
and built box buggy complete and
painted it. He went to the barn one
winter day and built COW stable, saw
ing the lumber with his feet, and with
the hammer in one foot and holding the
nail with the other, he nailed the boards
on as we'll as most men could with their
hands. He dug a we'll twelve feet deep
on farm in this town and stoned it
himself. He could NOW away hay by
holding the fork under his chin and
letting it rest against his shoulder. He
would pick up potatoes in the field as
fast as a man could dig them. He would
dress himself, get his meals, write his
letters, and, in fact. do almost anything
that man with two arms could do. He
was engaged for some time with Thomas
Collins, of Potsdam. in the sale of bug
gies and sleighs and has lately been
engaged in buying and selling hides
and pelts. BY his industry and frugaity
he succeeded in amassing a snug little
property owned a house and lot, and
was worth in all about $1,000 Water
tOuR Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
A Formal Call.

Two ladies had an amusing experience
in making formal call at house on
Linwood avenue the other day. The
maid asked them to wait until she as
certained whether the persons inquired
for were in. Presently she tripped
down stairs and announced that the
ladies were not at home" One of the
callers, finding that she had forgotten
her cards, said to her friend: "Let me
write my name on your card" "Oh, it
isn't at all necessary, Miss -" put in
the maid cheerfully, 81 told them who
it wasp Eyeunt aDsGo, with suppressed
emotion. Buffalo AdgFrtissr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

The sweets of married life should
never be kept in family jars.
THERE are good many ''ps'' in pep
per, but not hall SO many as there are
in coffee.
THE law cannot make a man moral,
but 1t can make him dreadfully uncom-
fortable when he is immoral.
n the weather does not 90 back to
inst principles, it will not be long before
Florida adVertises an ice palace.
IT is bad enough to break party ties,
but 1t isn't half so embarrassing as to
have them work around under your ear.
A WISCONSIN landlord recently notified
some of his drummer patrons not to
order more than they could eat up clean.
ONE of those days the epitaph of
every poor wretch who Is sent to Sing
-iagzwill be, "Gone where the combine
twlleth.
AFTER all, the railroads do not care
half SO much about the long haul and
the short haul as they do about making
big haul.
We have little piece of advice to
offer, gratis: Don't sit do II on to-
boggan slide unless there is toboggan
under you.
The young man who persuades him.
self that two people can live as cheaply
as one, can always find girl to help
him try the experiment.
FELINE AMENITt TtEs.-''Now, which of
these two photographs of you may l
have, dearest The beautiful one, or
the one as / know you"
THERE is man in Venice who can
speak ninety three languages. How in
valuable he would have been to superin-
tend the construction of the Tower of
Babel.
WHITRoCK (Jim Cummings) gave up
the coal business to 90 into the train
rObbing industry. The transition was
easy from a light-weigh-man to high
wayman.
FRANCE makes about 100, 900 quarts
of champagne every year. One million
quarts are shipped to England and the
other 100000 come to this country.
That's what makes champagne dear.
Don't always search for the serious
side of things. The man who has no
eye or ear for the ludicrous is an I'M
happy mortal Next to virtue The fun
in the world is what we ca least spare.
THE deepest gold mine in the world
is in California, says a floating item, but
that's a mistake. The deepest gold
mine in the world is true wife's loving
heart. No man ever got to the bottom
of it yet.
WHEN two wolves meet in the woods,
neither of them has the slightest ubt
as to what kind of animal the other one
is; but two men never meet in the forest
without each one suspecting the other of
b ing ''wOlf."
A New York paper thinks that Pow
derly should be paid higher sa ary
than $4,000. It is hoped, however,
that this suggestion will not induce
Mr.. PoYderly to order himself out on a
strike for higher wages or shorter hours.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
The New South.

Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constit,t'
ton, after his return from New England,
Dinah, there isn't thing on this table
fit to eat. Haven't you any baked
beans7
Dina-No. honey.
"Do you know how to make brown
bread 2"
"Neber learned dat, sah."
"You can make pumpkin pie, can't
you ?"
" No, sah."
Well, well, | can't see where you
were brought up, ".- Onlahe World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10

ANNE KoHR, of Lawrenceburg, Ind,
though but nine years old, has for
months been the teacher of a regular
organized gang of girl thieves of alout
her own age, who have been very sue
cessful in their petty robberies. Her
last performance was to board train,
ride to Aurora, and there enter the housJ
of a well-known citizen and steal hi,
wife's watch and chain. That led To-
her arrest, aud she will be sent to the
House Of Refuge,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10

THE business of exporting apples is
increasing. Two years ago 220, 900 bar
rels were shipped from New York; in
1885, 800, ,COI barrels, and last year
S4e, COO barrels,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10

IT is estimated that over 500 loco.
motives were built iii the United States
during the past year. They cost about
SIS, 600, 600,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10

''Give me little more of the wood
chuck, please, my DEAR" says Funny
man to his better half at breakfast.
"A oodchuck! What do you mean
There's no meat but sausage on the
table"
perhaps that's the article. They
used to call it woodchuck when I was
boy, Ground hog, you CHI
cdg0 Nous.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-07-16

A few evenings since, Mr.. Jefferson,
who keeps the saloon at Gienbrook,
was out bathing In the lake, when
something suddenly wrapped about
him like wet blanket. lie was close
TO shore and got there pretty lively.
When he climbed up the wharf the
blanket, as 1t appeared To be, was all
wrapped about him in a queer way.
He rushed into the rear of the saloon
where there was light, and was hor-
rilied TO discover that the thing which
was wrapped around him was alive.
IL held on with terrible suction. and
required several men IN get II of. A
scientist who was stopping at the no
tel pronounced II an elactys cacyn-
THUS. or what Is vulgarly known as
the blanket fish. IL frequents the
waters of the polar sea, and is only oc-
casionally found in fresh water. except
deep, cold lakes, and generally stays
near the bottom. Ii is sometimes
found in the Pacific Ocean as low as
the thirty fifth parallel. IL wraps
around its victim. and by pending the
motion OF its limbs causes IL 10 drown.
IL is dark brown in color. with black
specks. and weighs about twenty-five
pounds. When stretched out on the
wharf 1t was about six feet long by
five broad, and not over an inch thick.
IL was an object of curiosity all day.
Mr.. Emery. the stage driver. says he
saw Jefferson when he came out of the
water, and thought he was wrapped
up in blanket. This Is the first ever
caught in this section Of the world
Carson (CalO ADDedI.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-07-16
The Cat and the Kaiser.

A Berlin correspondent writes: A
wandering cat nearly did recently what
the French generals failed 10 do In the
whole campaign of 1901. A stray
pussy was within an ace Of doing for
the old Emperor William of Germany.
The Kaiser generally regales himself
in front OF his bed room fire, before
turning in, with supper of fried fish.
With his usual keenness for economic
ing time the old man eats his supper
seated on a patent steaming apparatus,
which has been ordered by physicians.
A small boiler is placed on the fire,
from this an india rubber tube conveys
steam into small cell under the pa
tents chair. While the Emperor was
eating his supper and enjoying the
moist heat puff of smoke and SCOT
came down the chimney and made him
start so violently that the tube was dis
connected and the boiling water poured
In volumes all over the place. His
luck never deserted him, however, and
he escaped without scald, TO find
eventually that the puff of smoke was
caused BY cat, which, attracted by the
smell of his fried fish, had rashly at
attempted decent Of the chimney and
got stuck In the tlue.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-07-16

not have done 90, Of she would have
claimed my aid"
Tristan was by no means sure Of
this.
IF she did not see you feel sure
SHE recognized your voice. for she
started when you spoke, and then Il
was that drst saw her face"
Jasper ground his teeth.
.It's an unfortunate affair. Jasper.
and wish you well out of IL. Don't
look at me as IL l had done you
ansinjury. There h my hand, old fell
low. wish you luck. We are still
friends"
And no poaching on my manor. re-
member" said Jasper, Frightening
somewhat as he grasped Tristam's
hand.
"Youare my friend" was the grave
answer.
FRO DE CONTINUED